U.S. citizen teens left behind when ICE deported their parents
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50896230
Two Fort Worth teenagers, suddenly on their own. For nearly a year, 19-year-old Dulce Zepeda has been raising her 13-year-old sister, Maria, in the months since their parents were arrested by ICE and then deported.
When NBC 5 Investigates first met Dulce and Maria in April, they were living in a Fort Worth apartment complex. Dulce, cooking, driving her sister to middle school, working at a local McDonald’s, and selling her mother’s jewelry, she said, to help pay bills.
“You never know whenever is the last hug that you’re going to have from your parents. You don’t know, you’ll never know how stressful and hard life is without them,” Dulce told NBC 5 Investigates.
The girls are U.S. citizens and legally entitled to remain in the country. But some immigration advocates say their case is a stark example of the precarious situations facing thousands of U.S. citizen children whose parents have been detained during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
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I can't imagine coming home from school and finding your family gone. Those kids are so vulnerable and I'm terrified the pedophile will traffic them.
I'm sure they will then charge the parents with neglect.
Every American is at fault. Do something.
Not “something.” Vote. The primaries are over. Early voting begins in just 4 weeks. Find out where and when and put it in your calendar.
Voting is rigged. It’s beyond that now
Voting will be the breakpoint. Either it will be fair, and people's voices will be heard. Or they will screw you, and the next option will be blood on the streets.
People at least wanting to wait to try the last non-violent option first is not unreasonable.
But the blood will be from the citizens, and not the leaders. The right wing has won in America. It will take many decades to return, if ever.
Fully agreed, which is why most people are reluctant to actively fight.
It only gets worse the longer they wait 🤷♂️
Interesting. What do you suggest?
Nothing that anyone is willing to do (yet)
Hmm intriguing. Why are they unwilling?
Because their lives aren’t hard enough yet. They will be in a few years. But it will be too late by then.
Oh well. American problems.
How unfortunate. So there’s no hope for the poor bastards?